PUMPKIN PATCHES AND GYMBOREE

Well it's been a minute since I've last blogged about this little man that has taken over my life.  I've been too lazy to really write anything.  Now that X is mobile, keeping up with him is exhausting me.  Everything changes once they start crawling.  Last week I had written up a fairly long post, but decided against posting it for personal reasons.  Last week was also heavy with the doctor visits for myself.  On Monday I had my yearly pap, and then the following day I had to see my regular doctor because I had a ginormous bite on my leg that was freaking X's dad out.  It was pretty big, but I usually shrug these kind of things off.  It's a good thing that X's dad is annoyingly persistent because my doctor thinks it could possibly be a tick bite and decided to start me on antibiotics to fight against Lyme disease.  Yikes!  I still only think it's a disgusting mosquito bite, but better safe than sorry, I guess.  I find out my fate this coming week.  So now you're probably wondering where the hell I managed to get a tick bite from.  Well, last Saturday we had to go to X's dad's sisters house for her daughter's birthday, and while there I was bitten.  I always thought ticks were a wooded area kinda bug, but I guess I was wrong.  Well, actually...who knows if I'm wrong.  It's probably just a mosquito bite. 

Enough about ticks, mosquito's, and bites.  This past Friday we took X to the Tanaka Farm's Pumpkin Patch in Irvine.  OMG it was so hot!  I was super hungover from the night before and hating life already, but damn the heat.  It made me feel 10x's worse.  Once we got there we didn't stay for long.  We rode the wagon, and then I managed to embrace the heat for 5 minutes to pick out a pumpkin for X, and then we left.  I felt kind of bad that I didn't take more pictures of X, or spend more time there to check out the other attractions, or you know, pick out a better pumpkin, but hangover and heat just don't mix.  After the farm we headed to South Coast Plaza to do some window shopping...which inevitably turned into real shopping.  Doesn't it always?  X's grandma bought him a new winter wardrobe, and a Christmas outfit.  I inherited my shopping gene from her.  It is probably my most expensive vice.  I don't know what I'm going to do if I ever have a daughter.  Girls clothes are so much cuter than the stuff they have for boys.  I'm going to have to sell a kidney or something.

I realize that a lot of my posts revolve around malls, shopping centers, and basically shopping in general.  It seems like all we do is take X to buy shit.  That is not a completely accurate assumption.  While X's dad and I both like to shop, we also like taking X to do other things.  Just this Saturday we took X to Gymboree.  He had a blast.  He was all over the place.  While every other baby stayed near their parents, X was just ready to explore everything...with or without his dad or me.  Although he likes it now, I'm not sure how long he'll stay interested.  To be honest, the Gymboree we went to wasn't too impressive, but more than anything we want to take him so that he can interact with other babies in his age group.  I also have a friend who takes her daughter there as well, so it's fun to let X and her daughter hang out.  I'm not sure how much they like each other, but he was about to chew on her feet, so there's got to be some level of comfort there.  God I hope X doesn't have some foot fetish when he grows up.  I hate feet.  Ick!  So since X enjoyed Gymboree so much, we decided to sign him up.  I have a feeling I'm going to get sick of Gymboree much sooner than X will, but I will suck it up for him.  That's how much I love you son!

Well...duty calls.  X is playing alone in his little "penalty box" aka his play yard thing, so I guess I better stop ignoring him, and actually engage him in some activity.  I think this is one of the only posts that I've written during the day.  I suppose I could have written this last night while X was asleep, but I binge watched Kingdom.  Pretty hooked on that show.  It's extremely unfortunate what happened to the lead actress, Kiele Sanchez and her still birth.  I just can't even imagine how devastating it would be to lose your baby one month before it was due.  Such a terrible thing to have to experience.  Geez...Way to be a Debbie Downer.  Okay.  Sneak peek for next weeks shoot coming up soon.  Such a lagger I am.  Bye!